Lord Swinton m: lained that there should be no relaxation of the Briti Government's efforts to maintain law and order against a campaign of violence.
He believed that it was possible to obtain ce-operation between the two races in Palestine.
Lord Reading expressed optimism with regard to the prospects of the Conference, in view of the existence of a representative moderate party among the Arabs.
The Archbishop of Canterbury welcomed the proposed Conference, but regretted that it had not taken place earlier.
"This," he declared, "is no mere Palestinian problem' with which we are confronted, affecting some 400,000 Jews, or 900,000 Arabs.
"It is a problem of unusual magnitude and urgency, and it is plaiñ that one of the main subjects which must be dealt with at this Conference is that of Jewish immigration.
"If there is to be any success at this Conference, each of the parties must abate some of their extreme claims.
"But.we must regard this question of immigration as, for the present, sub judice."
None of them, the Archbishop added, was wanting in full sympathy with the Arabs, but "at the present time, our sympathy with the Jews must be stronger, and it must be most profound."
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